bostonpete

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by bostonpete 1y ago
Not sure “thankless” really applies here. She enjoyed a sort of celebrity status for the past 40-50 years and was universally loved.
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by bostonpete 2y ago
Ball spin would be trivial to simulate. The only way I could see the physics getting at all expensive is if they went overboard with fluid dynamics
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by bostonpete 2y ago
What is the significance of the article/post title...?
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by bostonpete 2y ago
AWS has a denied party screening team and absolutely restricts access to services based on the BIS entity list and other sanctioned parties.
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by bostonpete 2y ago
I believe Musk was wealthy basically from birth…
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by bostonpete 2y ago
Whether MS deserves credit or not, he's a very senior SW engineer at Microsoft so this should at least provide some reassurance that the company has technical leaders who are looking out for these sorts of security risks...
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by bostonpete 3y ago
> TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse. Per your link, fatalities per mile drive bottomed out in 2014 and barely dropped after 2010. There's been some speculation that this rever
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by bostonpete 3y ago
How so? The submission you linked is a different article?
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by bostonpete 3y ago
Speech to text is often wrong too. So is autocorrect. And object detection. Computers don't have to be 100% correct in order to be useful, as long as we don't put too much faith in them.
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by bostonpete 3y ago
This seems like a non sequitur -- the parent was just pointing out that the article's use of "browser" was probably a typo. In addition to being more correct using "search engine" or just "search" in place
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by bostonpete 3y ago
That seems like a leap -- there's other foods that can provide sufficient iodine (e.g. fish, eggs, milk)...
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by bostonpete 3y ago
You didn't really make a comment -- you just dropped in an Asimov quote. And xNeil's interpretation of the relevance of that comment matched my intuition. If you had some other intent with that comment, maybe you should clarify?
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by bostonpete 3y ago
The USG isn't setting out to make money on major ventures. Publicly traded companies are.
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by bostonpete 3y ago
Can you share the palindrome?
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by bostonpete 4y ago
A Google search suggests that person may have been talking about the Black Dahlia killer, not the Zodiac killer
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by bostonpete 4y ago
Would be nice if they linked the study or at least an article about it.
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by bostonpete 4y ago
Wow, TIL you can use sed syntax in vi. I'm not a heavy vi user but that's still a handy trick. :-)
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by bostonpete 4y ago
That's not really true, at least not in the same way being discussed above. Jobs already owned millions of shares in Apple stock, so yes, he profited from the stock but AFAIK that was only from the appreciation of existing stock, not f
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by bostonpete 4y ago
10-15% of car accidents are cause by mechanical failure. Some of those could certainly be blamed on large corporations cutting corners, so my question still stands.
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by bostonpete 4y ago
Makes sense, but that still doesn't explain why we ignore tens of thousands of auto deaths per year but talk about one Uber ATG death for 5 years...
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by bostonpete 4y ago
Absolutely someone would buy a house with blemishes like that! Most house buyers look past that stuff, especially when the housing market is hot (which it still is). Get your house on the market without worrying about that stuff before the
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by bostonpete 5y ago
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree as I'm extremely skeptical of NFT's but I'd note that your "stone" thought exercise could also be applied to things like trading cards or other collectibles, which also have no objective v
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by bostonpete 5y ago
I usually look to r/science for this sort of skepticism. This particular thread doesn't seem especially negative... https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ren6cc/japanese_sc...
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by bostonpete 5y ago
The second sentence explicitly tells you what the graph is showing. The first sentence doesn't contradict that, it just seems to provide some context. (?)
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by bostonpete 5y ago
And it may just be that happiness and video game playing are both correlated with something else, like having a lot of leisure time and/or a lot of discretionary spending money.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Probably in large part because their book came out before Java was even around. :-D
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Not relevant for your "Hey" example but I often do submit successive thoughts as separate messages rather than one less disruptive message because it allows readers to add reactions/responses to the individual thoughts.
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Analyzing the doppler shift to calculate speed only works if you know what the unshifted audio spectrum should be. Trains generate a ton of noise at a wide range of frequencies and that noise probably varies significantly based on a bunch o
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by bostonpete 5y ago
Well, the article does conclude with that exact tweet...

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